Swami Tyagananda

Infobox Person
name = Swami Tyagananda


caption =
birth_date = 1956
occupation = Head of the Ramakrishna Vedanta Society, Boston. Chaplain at MIT, Harvard
nationality = Indian

Swami Tyagananda is a Hindu monk of the Ramakrishna Order and presently head of the Ramakrishna Vedanta Society in Boston. Currently he is Hindu chaplain at MITcite web
title = Commencement invocation at MIT
url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/comm-invocation.html
accessdate = 2008-07-17 ] and Harvardcite web
title = Harvard Chaplains
url=http://chaplains.harvard.edu/chaplains/profile.php?id=39
accessdate = 2008-07-17 ] . He is also a member of American Academy of Religion and the Society for Hindu-Christian Studies. He has presented papers at academic conferences and he gives lectures and classes at the Vedanta Society [cite web
title = Lectures at Vedanta Society
url = http://www.vedantasociety.net/lectures.asp
accessdate = 2008-07-17] , MIT, Harvard, and other colleges in and around Boston.

Etymology of the Name

This is how Swami Tyagananda explains the meaning of his name:

Biography

He joined the Ramakrishna Order as a monk in 1976, after graduating from the University of Bombay, India.Swami Tyagananda has served in the following monasteries [cite web
title = Biodata
url=http://web.mac.com/tyag/Home/Biodata.html
accessdate = 2008-07-17 ] :
* Mumbai 1976-1980
* Belur Math 1980-1982
* New Delhi 1982-1983
* Chennai 1983-1997
* Boston since 1998

Swami Tyagananda was the editor of the English language journal Vedanta Kesari based in Chennai, India. for eleven years. He has translated and edited ten books, including "Monasticism: Ideals and Traditions" (1991), "Values: The Key to a Meaningful Life" (1996) and "The Essence of the Gita" (2000). Swami Tyagananda is also know for his paper "Kali’s Child Revisited or Didn’t Anyone Check the Documentation" which moves point-by-point through a list of many serious erros in Kali's Child. [cite book
last = Ramaswamy
first = Krishnan
coauthors = Antonio de Nicolas, et al.,
title = Invading the Sacred
publisher = Rupa & Co.,
date = 2007
chapter = Targetting Sri Ramakrishna
pages = p.30
url = http://invadingthesacred.com/] "Kali's Child Revisited" was presented at the annual meeting of the AAR [cite journal
last = Sharma
first = Arvind
title = Hindus and Scholars
journal = RELIGION IN THE NEWS
volume = 7
issue = 1
publisher = trincoll.edu
date = Spring 2004
url = http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/csrpl/RINVol7No1/Hindus%20and%20Scholars.htm
accessdate = 2008-07-17] and published in journal "Evam" [cite journal
last = Tyagananda
first = Swami
coauthors = Pravrajika Vrajaprana
title = Kali’s Child Revisited or Didn’t Anyone Check the Documentation
journal = Evam: Forum on Indian Representations
volume = 1
issue = 1-2
date = 2002
url = http://www.infinityfoundation.com/mandala/s_rv/s_rv_tyaga_kali1_frameset.htm] [cite web
title = EVAM - FORUM ON INDIAN REPRESENTATIONS ~ Issue 1
url = http://www.swaveda.com/journal.php?jid=2&j=Evam
accessdate = 2008-08-20]

External links

* [http://www.vedantasociety.net/index.asp Ramakrishna Vedanta Society]
* [http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/comm-invocation.html Commencement invocation at MIT 2005]
* [http://forum.wgbh.org/wgbh/forum.php?lecture_id=1426 Why Celibacy? Hindu, Buddhist and Christian Views]
* [http://www.vedantasociety.net/lectures.asp Lectures at Vedanta Society, Boston]

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